2017 July

One of the benefits of the general election campaign was that I was able to meet many more parents of schoolchildren in my constituency when out campaigning on days when I would usually be working in the House of Commons. A big topic of discussion was school funding. The Conservative government was and still is planning on making huge cuts to the funding of schools in Walsall. For example Moorcroft Wood Primary School will lose funding that amounts to a cut of £514 per pupil or the equivalent of losing 3 teachers.

Last week following the Taylor review, the Prime Minister said that “through debate and discussion – the hallmarks of our Parliamentary democracy – ideas can be clarified and improved and a better way forward found’.